Every year, I publish a color-coded version of the NFL schedule the night it is released. This year, things were delayed a bit, but it’s ready now.
Excel file to download: NFL Schedule 2022 FPv2
Some notes:
In week 2 (and not week 1), there will be two Monday Night Football games. They will overlap, with Tennessee/Buffalo kicking off at 7:15 and Minnesota/Philadelphia at 8:30. I put a 1 next to the first game and a 2 next to the second game differentiate.
There are five international games, and they get the yellow background. One twist: one will be played on Monday Night Football in Mexico City. That game, Arizona/San Francisco, received the light blue background (as do the other MNF games) with yellow font. The other four international games all get the same yellow color-coding, although note that three of them are in London, with Tampa Bay/Seattle being played in Germany. All four kickoff at 9:30 am, eastern time.
I have included a Turkey next to the Thanksgiving games in week 12. As always, it’s Detroit in the early window, Dallas in the afternoon, and the third game in the evening.
In Week 15, three of five games will be played on Saturday with the other two on Sunday. That will be announced later in the season, so for now, all five games are shown in white/red.
In week 16, Sunday falls on December 25th. The NFL decided to play the majority of all games on Saturday in week 16. There are 11 games played on Christmas Eve, and three games played on Sunday on Christmas. From a color-coding perspective, I thought it made more sense to just acknowledge that the week is unusual — hence the green and red coloring for week 16 at the top! — rather than to color-code each game as a Saturday game. But I did make the font green for all the Saturday games (other than, of course, Pittsburgh/Las Vegas, which is on Saturday night and has the green background and white font). The three Christmas games being played on Sunday get the special, Christmas-color coding, with the one night game (Tampa Bay/Arizona) getting the green background, consistent with how SNF games are usually depicted. It gets the red font, though, to remind you that it is being played on Christmas (the other two Xmas games get the red background and greent front). Meanwhile, Raiders/Steelers is played on Saturday night, and it just gets a green background with white font. Make sense? Who knows, but it was the best way I could think to present the schedule!
In Week 18, two games will be played on Saturday (one in the afternoon, one at night), one will be on Sunday Night Football, there will be no Monday Night Football, and the other 13 games will be played on Sunday in either the 1:00 or 4:25 windows. For now, all games are shown for 1:00 on Sunday.